Letty Posted March 30, 2007 Posted March 30, 2007 Ive been having a bit of trouble with my browser (Slimbrowser) recently. Basically, I open it up, and it runs fine for about 20 minutes. After that, it suddenly uses up about 70% more cpu than normal, so I have to close the program and run it again. This only started today, and Ive had this browser since late december, with no problems. Does anyone know whats going on? I dont want to change browser either, I really like this! Edit - its happening every 5 mins or so now, ack!
Guest Jordan Posted March 30, 2007 Posted March 30, 2007 I suggest an uninstall and reinstall to see if that works...
Letty Posted March 30, 2007 Author Posted March 30, 2007 Ive just done it. It was fine for about 30 mins(?) but it just happened again >_>
Shorty Posted March 30, 2007 Posted March 30, 2007 Slimbrowser is like a resource sucking modification for internet explorer. Its stuffing extra features on to IE then calling it minimalistic. I suggest uninstalling it and not reinstalling it. That was kinda as elitist as those guys who post "Get a mac!" wasn't it? Wow, now I see why they do it
Guest Jordan Posted March 30, 2007 Posted March 30, 2007 Personally i stopped using it a while back and switched to IE7 in Vista... which is pretty good supprisingly.
Gizmo Posted March 30, 2007 Posted March 30, 2007 Have you cleared private data (cookies, page history etc) and done a spyware scan?
thirtynine. Posted March 30, 2007 Posted March 30, 2007 Opera is pretty good for not eating up your CPU
Marshmellow Posted March 31, 2007 Posted March 31, 2007 Personally i stopped using it a while back and switched to IE7 in Vista... which is pretty good supprisingly. Yah I was surprised on how nice it is as well. I actually use it every now and then. Mainly just so I can pull up My [email protected] faster though... I've just recently started using Opera instead of Firefox and it doesn't kill the cpu much at all. But if you want to keep Slimbrowser, the only thing I can reccommend is what Gizmo said. And once it reaches 90% does it stay there for a while, or does it bounce back and forth a little? edit* councidentally my browser just went crazy loaded one site and cpu usage went to 100% and it stopped working... Closed it and opened again tried the same website and it did the same thing. Tried a different website and it worked fine... That doesn't really make sense but it's what happened.
Gaijin von Snikbah Posted March 31, 2007 Posted March 31, 2007 Ive been having a bit of trouble with my browser (Slimbrowser) recently. What do you mean you are not using Opera?
Shorty Posted March 31, 2007 Posted March 31, 2007 I still can't stand Opera's layout really. I feel like they made certain illogical choices purely to be different. I'm still a firefox guy myself, well customised, minimalistic, all adverts completely blocked and currently using... 61k RAM. Which I guess is quite a lot, but with 2GB I'm just not too fussed
Gaijin von Snikbah Posted March 31, 2007 Posted March 31, 2007 I still can't stand Opera's layout really. I feel like they made certain illogical choices purely to be different. I'm still a firefox guy myself, well customised, minimalistic, all adverts completely blocked and currently using... 61k RAM. Which I guess is quite a lot, but with 2GB I'm just not too fussed Opera's layout is fully customizable, even moreso than Firefox. You can also download custom skins. Its also the safest and fastest browser there is.
Letty Posted March 31, 2007 Author Posted March 31, 2007 And once it reaches 90% does it stay there for a while, or does it bounce back and forth a little? It went to 100%, but I assumed it was the combined amount from all my programs. Anyway, It got to 100% and stayed there. It only stopped when I closed and opened it again, where it would go back down to 10 or 20. It seems to have stopped now though. Wierd that...
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